Life Purpose Begins & Ends With The Divine

How many people do you think ponder the meaning in life and if it has any meaning?

Do you think you are alone when wondering why things don’t make sense? With all the death and dying in the world, what is the purpose of life?  You are not alone as all of us have been made by God and even though we have distinct personalities we are in fact the same.  We all have the same needs, wants and searching for the same thing in life; happiness.

Sometimes, happiness seems out of reach.  You struggle and struggle and you can seem to keep afloat.  Like swimming in a toilet bowl you go a round and a round and a round until you’re finally flushed.   All the articles that I have ever read about what people wanted most out of life surprised me.  I expected them to say, cars, houses, fame, money, and prestige, but this is not what people feel they really want from life.

What I’ve found is that most people want peace, love, and joy.  I guess thats why Zig Ziglar said that money can buy you a house but it won’t buy you a home.  In fact I have read that some who become instant millionaires are the most loneliest people in the world.  They either become so arrogant and no one can stand to be around them. Some find out who there friends really are.

So what to you do to find the things that are important in life?

Start with relationships.  How is your relationship with your husband or significant other?  If its not everything its cracked up to be maybe you need to make it better or move on.  What about family members? Are they a great support to you or do they just bring you down?  How about your children?  How long has it been since you spent some quality time with them no matter how old they are? Quality time not just a trip to the movies.

One really important relationship is the one with God.  Your spiritual connection with God will always give you a deeper sense of meaning, purpose and fulfillment in your life. This is why so many people look towards spiritual enlightenment as a way to live a better life. Consider all your life connections or relationship…

Grow Up – Make Some Things Happen

Our physical lives definitely reflect and correlate with our spiritual lives!

Here’s an example…

Every parent looks forward to their child/children growing to be successful and to make something happen for themselves. As a parent, once you have laid or established a proper foundation or path for your children to follow, and have groomed them with their right morals, traits, and habits for successful living, you kinda expect that at some point they will use the tools you have given them to succeed. You look forward to them taking advantage of the principles you have taught them so they can make wonderful thing happen in their own lives.

After you have invested your time, your wisdom, your resources into the lives of your kids, you look forward to them progressing and making you proud.

God our Father is no different…

There comes a time when you and I as children of God have got to grow up and make some positive things happen in our lives that makes God proud of what He has invested in us. Our Heavenly Father looks into our future and sees us as powerful, successful, influential children who bring happiness and glory to Him by the way we impact the world in positive way – because we are his kids.

Now sometimes, it may take us a little while during our lives to catch up with His vision for us and begin literally walking the path of our destiny, because we have to move from a mindset of victimization and defeat that we inherited in our former lives (sin nature), and accept His mindset of conquest and victory (our new nature after Christ) – but nonetheless, like every other parent, God want children who make Him proud.

And because the Spirit Of Jesus lives inside of you and me, we already have the power within us to bring glory to our Heavenly Father…

Ephesians 3:20 states – Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us…

In other words, God can do awesome things in our lives, but the power to make the reaction occur, lies within you and me!

When things do not go the way we want, most people never want to take responsibility. It’s always someone else fault – so instead of us achieving and moving forward in spite of our challenges, mishaps, and faults, we often find ourselves on the sidelines of life, moaning and groping about our misfortunes.

Here are 2 things you want to avoid in life is you ever plan on living successfully and stay moving forward and growing to become who God has indeed called you to be.

They are:
1. Ingratitude
2. Pride

Ingratitude – (Deuteronomy 8:8) Many times we are quick to forget what God has done for us. God said to Moses and the people, “there is good that I have set aside for you, a place where you will have what you desire and give thanks to the Provider – but be careful not to forget the Lord and become proud and declare that you own power and might have gotten you this wealth...”

In a nutshell, all God was saying was that you and I can’t truly succeed without Him; we can’t truly prosper without Him, and we definitely can’t grow without Him.

Pride – You inability to accept correction. Proverbs 14:12 says that “there is a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death“.

Our parents corrected us because they understood that when we continued to do what was wrong, it would interfere with our proper growth and development. Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it“.

Correction improves our chances for success – and God know this intimately, so this is the reason the Bible states that God chastises those whom He loves. When you accept correction, you literally become willing to receive instruction and wisdom – and this creates a powerful space in your future to walk into provision and promotion from God.

There is so much that you and I are capable of doing and becoming for God – We have the capacity to make our Heavenly Father extremely proud of us as His children – and it even does not matter how much times we mess up, make mistakes, or miss the mark – know that God loves you even in spite of your faults.

His will is that you and I take what He invests into our lives, and makes something powerful and positive happen daily – which will make Our Father smile and say, “That’s My Child”

Thanks For Reading
Conrad L Jones

P.S. Here Is Something That Will Give You A Clear Path To Making Powerful Things Happen In Your Life Everyday…

Spiritual Disciplines For The Christian Life – Part 2

Okay, let’s continue with our overview of the principles from the book “Spiritual Discipline For The Christian Life” which we started a few minutes ago. If you have read the first section, then go back and read “spiritual disciplines for the christian life – part 1” before you continue.

Let’s finish the other 5 spiritual disciplines…

Spiritual Discipline #6 – Stewardship
Most believers think that stewardship is simply a ministry given to pastors, church leaders, or clergy – it isn’t really passed down to every person. But Read more

Spiritual Disciplines For The Christian Life – Part 1

I was recently looking at a book called spiritual disciplines for the Christian life written by Donald S Whitney that I thought offered practical time tested formulas for Godly success and powerful christian living, that are often overlooked by many believers today.

I believe that because these spiritual disciplines are neglected in many of our christian walk, we often live beneath our privileges as children of God, and are exposed to any number of difficulties that need not be commonplace in our christian lives, simply because many of us have not chosen to discipline our spirits according to these timeless principles. Read more

Building Confidence In God

Let’s talk about building confidence…Godly confidence!

The word confidence is a combination of 2 specific words.
1. ‘Con’ which means “with”  and 2 ‘fidence’ which means “faith”.
So the the word confidence means literally means “with faith”

There basically 3 types of confidence that exists in the world
1. Godly Confidence – “faith in God”
2. Self Confidence – “faith in yourself”
3. General Confidence – “faith in others/things”

Let’s take a look at the first type of confidence – confidence in God. This is the most important of the 3 simply because having confidence in God can produce confidence in yourself, and boost your faith in others.

One of the most important things to learn about confidence is that it happens because of relationship. Because there is a connection between you and the person or thing that you have faith in, you develop a trust that allows you to rely on them to perform and do what that have said they would do. So in other words, when you don have any self confidence, it really means that you don’t even trust yourself to do what you think you can…that’s a very sad case!

Because we understand that confidence is based on relationship, then lack of confidence must be the result of little or no relationship.

Let me explain this relationship confidence building idea…

Have you ever seen a child in his father’s arms? Now imagine the father throwing the kid up into the air and catching him again before he hits that ground. Most of us has had a similar experiece growing up as kids, it’s a mixture between fun and fear. The child feels good rising high into the air and it is fun, then he feels fearful coming down because the ground is rushing towards him and he already knows the pain of falling. But just before he hits the ground, strong arms catch him and he is safe. Then like most children on the planet, he makes a really crazy decision and scream out again…again!

This relationship between father and son grows stronger and stronger with each mid-air catch as the child learns to rely on the fact that Dad won’t let me hit the ground. So these experiences produce confidence in the father.

Our confidence in God grows the exact same way. As children, God clearly shows us that He has our best interest at heart; we go through rough times and He shows up to help us and and confirm to us that we are not alone. This connected relationship brings us to a point where we believe and trust in His words. If He says so, we believe it is so, simply because He has already proven to us that He stands behind His words.

Godly confidence is built through personal connection and relationship with God – the way we connect and relate to Him opens doors for us to prove His love in our lives and experience all that He has for us.

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